Belle painting is one of Chinese traditional figure painting. It is to reflect a specific social environment and to express some kind of aesthetic idea by creating beautiful and vivid women images. The paintings selected in this book are all have their own unique features.

Belle Painting of Tang Dynasty
Court Ladies Adorning Their Hair with Flowers (Partial)
Court Ladies Adorning Their Hair with Flowers (Partial)
Ladies Playing Double-Sixes
Portrait of a Dancing Girl
Court Ladies in Entertainments
Portrait of a Maidservant (Fragment)
Emperor Taizong Receiving Tibetan Envoys on a Sedan Chair (Partial)
Belle Painting of Dynasties,Northern and Southern song Dynasties
Han Xizai Giving an Evening Banquet (Partial)
Han Xizai Giving an Evening Banquet (Partial)
Han Xizai Giving an Evening Banquet (Partial)
Scroll of Collating Books in Northern Qi (Partial)
Breaking Off Plum Branches
A Court Lady at Dressing Table
A Facsimile of Zhang Xuan's 'Duchess of Guo State Going on a Spring Outing'
A Facsimile of Zhang Xuan's 'Court Ladies Preparing Newly-Woven Silk' (Partial)
A Facsimile of Zhang Xuan's 'Court Ladies Preparing Newly-Woven Silk' (Partial)
Two Court Ladies Enjoying the Cool
Preparing Newly-Woven Silk (Partial)
Preparing Newly-Woven Silk (Partial)
Preparing Newly-Woven Silk (Partial)
Preparing Newly-Woven Silk (Partial)
Female Filial Piety (Partial)
Female Filial Piety (Partial)
Female Filial Piety (Partial)
Female Filial Piety (Partial)
Fan Painting of Morning Make-up
Fan Painting of Taming Parrot
Belle Painting of Yuan and Ming Dynasties
Court Lady Enjoying the Cool
Fairy Maiden in a Moonlit Night
Plum Flowers and Court Lady
Royal Harem of Han in Early Spring (Partial)
Royal Harem of Han in Early Spring (Partial)
Royal Harem of Han in Early Spring (Partial)
Royal Harem of Han in Early Spring (Partial)
Royal Harem of Han in Early Spring (Partial)
Playing Kids
Girls in Bamboo Grove
Figure Painting
A Lady at Leisure Looking into the Distance
Four Beauties
Tao Gu Presenting a Ci Poem to a Singing Girl
One of the 'Miscellaneous Paintings'
Drawing Chrysanthemum Flowers
A Replica of 'Spinning and Weaving' of Song Dynasty (Partial)
A Replica of 'Spinning and Weaving' of Song Dynasty (Partial)
Figure and Landscape Painting
Scooping Out the Moon in
Court Ladies (Partial)
Court Ladies (Partial)
Court Ladies (Partial)
Court Ladies (Partial)
Court Ladies (Partial)
Court Ladies (Partial)
Court Ladies (Partial)
Belle Painting of Qing Dynasty
Imperial Concubines
Court Lady Adorning Her Hair with Flowers